The role purpose is to advise clients in the Clean Energy and Utilities sectors on commercial contracts and regulation. Examples of commercial contracts advice includes pre-construction survey & consultancy contracts, power purchase agreements and civil & defence aviationmitigation agreements. Regulatory advice includes the Contracts for Difference regime, grid regulation (including OFTOs), unbundling, hydrogen, heat, water, and electric vehicles. Experience is desired but not essential.
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Candidate Profile
- Strong team player joining a small but busy team doing high quality work across the clean energy and related sectors and across the UK and Ireland.
- Exceptional time management skills
- Exceptional communication skills, highly responsive to client demands
- Some exposure to commercial contracts and/or energy/utilities regulation is preferred
- Strong problem solving skills
Technical/Legal Skills
- Demonstrates appropriate range of legal knowledge and, with assistance, can identify issues outside their expertise and seek appropriate assistance.
- Demonstrates initiative to obtain relevant information to complete tasks. Produces a solution best addressing the client’s requirements, with guidance.
- Demonstrates potential to display effective spoken and written advocacy skills.
Business/Work Management
- Works as part of a team to attain objectives within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Keeps all clients and colleagues up-to-date with latest developments.
- Complies with all firm policies and procedures, including financial.
- Implements improvements in working methods.
- Prepares well for meetings with guidance.
- Makes effective use of the firm’s information management systems, and complies with all legal and regulatory requirements.
Business Development & Client Relationship Management
- Communicates clearly with prospective and current clients in all contexts.
- Is aware of the impact of external market forces on clients and identifies trends which may lead to opportunities.
- Develops effective ways of delivering client solutions with minimum guidance.
- Develops an understanding of how to build client relations.
- Develops an understanding of client care issues.
- Communicates client feedback to senior team members.
- Develops an understanding of value of activity versus time spent.
- Participates in marketing activities.
- Develops effective presentational and writing skills.
- Understands importance of cross selling opportunities to the firm.
People Management
- Developing an effective personal presence with partners and colleagues.
- Demonstrates ability to manage and supervise work effectively with guidance, and to seek or provide support when required.
- Delegates work effectively to appropriate fee earning and non-fee earning staff.
- Gives well prepared and presented training sessions with guidance.
- Supports diversity & inclusion within the team.
Personal Development and Knowledge Management
- Completes appropriate CPD hours.
- Maintains an adequate and up to date understanding of relevant law, policy and practice, and to identify where legal research is required.
- Takes responsibility for personal learning and development, evaluates strengths and limitations in relation to the demands of their work, and reflects on and learns from others.
- Undertakes personal study/research to address gaps in knowledge.
- Utilises internal/external knowledge resources and current awareness information, e.g. libraries, daily current awareness/plc newsletter etc.
- Contributes to firm’s knowledge resources.
- Gives well prepared and presented training sessions with guidance.
Ethics, professionalism and judgment
- Recognises ethical issues and will raise with appropriate person.
- Demonstrates an understanding and application of the ethical concepts which govern their role and behaviour as a lawyer.
- Identifies the relevant LSS principles and rules of professional conduct, and seeks assistance in applying them.
- Resists pressure to condone, ignore or commit unethical behaviour.
- Respects diversity, and acts fairly and inclusively.
- Discloses when work is beyond their personal capability and recognises when they have made mistakes and takes appropriate action.
- Seeks expert advice when required, and makes effective use of feedback, guidance and support received.
Firm Contribution
- Awareness of and, where appropriate, participates in development of team's operational goals.
- Displays an awareness of organisational goals and has an engaged commitment to team goals.
- Participates in extra practice events to assist development of firm
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